On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:41 AM, <hans...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Re packaging issues, I'm not trying to figure them out at all, AFAIC they're > a "black box" that just works - I plan to just observe their results and > stick to their policies (I didn't realize BPC permissions could vary from > one distro to another).
Thinking of it as a black box only works if you don't plan to make your own changes. The disto packagers modify things to fit programs into the way each distribution works, so don't expect the components to be in the same places, have the same names, owners, permissions, etc. between .deb and .rpm packages. It is up to the packager to make those decisions and they are fairly arbitrary. > Re OS choices, I don't have the access, knowledge or desire to do my initial > learning/experimentation in the production CentOS CLI environment; for many > aspects it's so much easier to work with a distro like Ubuntu at this > stage. That makes no sense at all to me. CentOS will install and work just the same as ubuntu unless you have some unusual hardware and if you want a GUI (which won't matter much for what you are doing) you can install it. The only real differences are in the package management tools and administration style and it doesn't make sense to learn/test the wrong one. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/